title: Developmental psychology and psychoanalysis: I. The context for a revolution in psychoanalysis.
abstract: After describing the manner in which the integration of psychoanalysis and developmental psychology became a central problem for ego psychology, the author examines the conditions that make it possible for new research and theory in developmental psychology to contribute to a revolution in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. They include: (1) the emergence of a state of "crisis" in American psychoanalysis centering on questions of the nature of early development and how it can be known; (2) the explosive growth of developmental research on early childhood dealing with issues at the heart of that crisis; and (3) the presence of a new generation of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented researchers capable of bringing that research to bear on those issues.
authors.affiliation: Children's Division, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leichtman
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000639:trends*